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Politicians Have Poor Grasp of Technology?
Alfred Lee Deon writes "Chris Patten, a former EU Commissioner, was speaking at the three-day conference in Nice, France, on European business and technology. 'Many politicians don't understand the technology issues that could affect government IT schemes,' he said.' Politicians have no sound grasp of technology issues — but politicians don't necessarily have a profound grasp of any issue.' He was especially critical of UK's government's ID card scheme — a scheme he felt would not achieve one of its possible objectives of making borders more secure."
Oh please... It's clear that our fearless leader has been using the google on the internets for years. I hear he looks up maps.
No, politicians have an excellent grasp of technology.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
The internet is just a series of tubes ... right?
but in America our politicians have a strong grasp of how to use technology... for hooking up with underage boys.
"I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability."-Oscar Wilde
"Everyone knows that Congresspeople are assigned to committees based on their greatest weakness! Why else would Senator Ted Stevens, a man more comfortable in the horse and buggy era, wind up in charge of regulating the Internet... which, he believes, is a series of tubes... a series of tubes through which other Congressmen can reach in and fondle sixteen-year olds?"
"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself." - Mark Twain.
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
Series of tubes, anyone?
Ha ha. That was funny.
They did use CNN to get their information on Katrina...
Ben Hocking
Need a professional organizer?
Mary Carey is one politician who has a firm conception of how we "grasp the tubes."
Perhaps when you graduate highschool and move into the real world, you would understand that IT people are the problem solvers of the world. We are the soldiers of a digital age, armed with our minds, rapier like wits, and superior intellectual powers. We are the gatekeepers that master over the pleebs and serfs - the unclean, unwashed masses that merely plod on through life oblivious to us as we would be to any extra dimensional creatures. Our blood is the oil on the gears which keeps modern society clawing and grinding on. If there were no IT people, the world would devolve into a neolithic anarchy of canabalism , lawlessness and pagan electronics worship. Perhaps you have seen planet of the apes? We are charlton heston crossed with bruce campbell and we are the saviors of mankind.
I'll just use my special getting high powers one more time...